A yearly government spending report from Oklahoma’s Republican Senator James Lankford has highlighted questionable uses of federal tax dollars, including costly animal research projects. According to Lankford’s findings, the current administration allocated close to $250 million for laboratory studies involving hormone treatments on various animals including monkeys, mice, and rats. The research aimed to alter the animals’ biological sex characteristics but proved unsuccessful. The senator’s waste report also noted that researchers administered substances commonly used in certain nightlife communities to the test animals during these failed experiments.
